The Weekender: Three Things to Try During Your Down Time

TGIF! As with every Friday, Adriane and Claudia Kiss of TheKissters.com, the sisters' website, which features entertaining tips and tricks to help you "live large on small change," give us fun ideas to try, make and do over the weekend. You know, those fun days. Get ready to start filling up your calendar -- fast.

FRIDAY: MAKE AN INSPIRATION BOARD

Listen, we heart Pinterest, but we really love the idea of getting motivated with an old-fashioned, hand-made inspiration board. Gather up old magazines and catalogs and make a collage of things you love, goals you have, and quotes that inspire you. New year, new you, right?

SATURDAY: WHIP UP SOME SNOW CREAM

Have you heard we’re smack-dab in the middle of a huge snow storm on the East Coast this weekend? (If you haven’t, you obvi haven’t been on Twitter.) So, in addition to bundling up and trying to stay warm inside, it’s fun to do something with all those piles of snow, too. Why not take a trip down memory lane and make snow cream! It’s simple, delicious, and may just be the trick to feeling the joy of snow days like you did as a kid!

Ingredients:

1 gallon fresh, clean snow

1 cup white sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups milk

Gather clean fresh show into a large bowl. When full, stir in sugar and vanilla to taste. Stir in just enough milk for the desired consistency. Serve immediately.

Makes 8 servings

SUNDAY: PUMP UP THE VOLUME

When it’s cold and gloomy outside, who doesn’t love to have a nice lil’ Scandal marathon on Netflix? So if you watch TV on your computer like we do, we have a little secret for increasing the quality of sound: Boom, an app you can download from iTunes for just $4.99, significantly improves and increases your computer’s sound. And just like that, boom: sound problems solved.